Outplacement: supporting career transitions
Reorganisation, restructuring, individual departures, changing jobs: companies sometimes have to prepare employees’ move towards a new professional stage, in demanding and sensitive contexts.
The challenge is twofold: giving employees the means to bounce back and secure the next step of their journey, while giving the company a clear, human and structured framework to manage departures and transformations.
Giving everyone the means to build what comes next
That is the role of outplacement: supporting employees through their career transition, from clarifying the project to delivering it.
In practical terms, outplacement, or redeployment, makes it possible to take stock of experience and skills, identify realistic prospects and prepare the next professional step for the employee or employees concerned, for example towards:
- a new job;
- a move;
- a career change;
- creating or taking over a company;
- self-employment;
- interim management.
Outplacement is generally offered and funded by the employer. It supports both an individual departure (dismissal, settlement agreement, voluntary departure or external move) and a reorganisation or restructuring involving several employees.
Two forms of outplacement depending on the context
Individual outplacement
Individual outplacement is built around a person’s background, their objectives and their level of responsibility.
At Alixio Group, we focus in particular on supporting executives, managers and senior leaders through their career transitions.
Depending on the needs, the support can focus on positioning, career strategy, skills, market preparation or network activation.
Collective outplacement
Collective outplacement supports several employees as part of a reorganisation, a restructuring or a mobility scheme.
We build a shared framework while taking each person’s situation and project into account. The support can combine assessment, guidance, individual follow-up, group workshops and the delivery of mobility or redeployment solutions.
When the transformation affects several sites or several countries, the scheme can be coordinated on a global scale while adapting the support methods to local realities and the different employment markets.
This expertise draws in particular on Alixio Mobility, which specialises in professional mobility, collective redeployment schemes, assessment and guidance.
Who is outplacement for?
Outplacement can concern employees at all levels of responsibility.
The nature of the support varies according to the context: a senior leader will not face the same repositioning challenges as a manager or as an employee affected by a collective scheme.
That is why we tailor the paths to the profile, the level of responsibility, the skills, the career prospects and the employment market concerned.
Going beyond the job search
A career transition does not necessarily lead to finding a role equivalent to the previous one.
We help each person compare several scenarios, assess how feasible they are in the light of their experience and the market, and then build a realistic and motivating project.
Depending on the situation, this path can also be aligned with an end-of-career or retirement-preparation scheme.
Complementary areas of expertise within Alixio Group
Outplacement is part of a broader expertise in mobility and career transitions.
- Individual support for executives, managers and senior leaders, with schemes suited to their level of responsibility and career challenges.
- Professional mobility, collective redeployment, assessment, guidance and the support of career paths in transformation contexts.
- End-of-career and retirement-preparation schemes, particularly as part of reorganisation projects. This expertise complements the mobility and redeployment solutions offered to the employees concerned.
Depending on the context, Alixio Group can thus coordinate its expertise across outplacement, professional mobility, redeployment, end of career, recruitment, skills management, training, leadership development and organisational transformation.
Why choose Alixio Group?
Support that also meets the company’s challenges
For the company, outplacement secures transitions, handles departures constructively and gives a clear framework to the employees concerned.
As part of individual support, this provision backs the employee’s onward professional journey and preserves the quality of the relationship right up to departure.
In a collective scheme, the HR department has a clear view of the paths, the solutions mobilised and their progress, thanks to follow-up and steering tools.
An international presence
Effective outplacement takes account of the region, the employment area and the options genuinely accessible to each employee.
- In France, Alixio Group draws on a regional network that makes it possible to support employees and companies as close as possible to their local challenges.
- Internationally, the Group operates in more than 100 countries and mobilises its network of consultants, coaches and HR experts. This setup makes it possible to adapt the support to the realities of the country, the employment market and each person’s professional project.
As part of a collective scheme involving several countries, the interventions can be coordinated within a shared framework while remaining suited to local specific features.
Support tailored to each transition
Whether it means supporting a senior leader, an executive, a manager or several employees as part of a transformation, our aim is the same: to help each person build a realistic, lasting trajectory suited to their skills and ambitions.
